PABLO “EL ENTERRADOR” - SAME (REMASTERED + 4 BONUS TRACKS) (JAPANESE MINI LP SLEEVE SHM-CD) $35 What else is there to say about this prog/symph masterpiece other than get it! http://www.myspace.com/pabloelenterrador

BALZER, ANDRÉ - ENTRE L’ALPHA & L’OMEGA (OPUS I) $16 Symphonic musical journey by Atoll vocalist. He still sounds great so the Atoll reunion concert at Farfest (Tertio line-up!) later this year should be something special http://www.myspace.com/andrebalzer

APPLE BELLS - RZEKA DAM (DIGIPACK) $16 Although a new Polish, band these guys have a lot more in common with the 70’s Czech bands such as Modry Efekt & Synkopy. Nice debut! http://www.applebells.com/muzyka.php

Please can someone possibly post the contents of Greg's most recent Newsletter from a few days ago into this thread? It simply can't get through to my email as usual, and I've checked all sorts of junk/spam folders. Todd from the Archives has tried sending it to me as well, but still no luck!

I've not heard Yuka & Chronoship, but Providence is very highly regarded symph prog with female lead vocals. They only did two albums and Choko-mura is the better of the two.

Motoi Sakuraba records hi-energy instrumental keyboard prog. He's been doing anime soundtracks, so something new + original is very cool. When I receive my order I'll know if What's Up deviates from his usual formula, but I'm sure it'll be another fine Motoi album.

I'm the same, Deafmoon, been going to Greg for years and never had to look elsewhere! Very nice guy, great communication, super fast and affordable delivery too!

Verslibre, I'll try to get a few clips of the PTF album posted on here. I don't think they're on the Archives yet, but I think they're violin-led fusion/prog? Of coruse, it would be a lot simpler if I just gave the danm album a spin already!

I actually haven't ordered from Syn-phonic since the dawn of the WWW, or thereabouts, because:- You can't order directly on the web site- The catalog is strictly ordered by countryAm I being too picky? Perhaps...

You're in Colorado, so you're in the US and closer to Greg than you were a few years ago (he relocated to Utah). You really should take advantage of his extensive inventory and general prog knowledge. Trivia: Greg's favorite band was Banco for the longest time. Not sure if that's changed, I haven't asked him.

If you're on Greg's mailing list, all you have to do is email your order. He writes back within hours to confirm he has everything, and then packs and ships it. Easy as pie! I haven't do so for a few years, but I used to call him up , too. Those were dangerous calls, though...they usually resulted in orders of upwards of 10-12 CDs.

Categorization by country is just peachy for a guy like me. For the longest time, I'd scan Japan, Italy and certain South American countries before any other. When he started the email updates, I no longer had to do that.

Verslibre! I've given the Japanese `PTF - Percept From' album a spin....it's amazing!

Very grand, dramatic symphonic instrumental prog, with lots of jazz and 70's light fusion elements, terrific violin and piano soloing, complex drumming, thick bass....There's a very romantic flavour to it, like bands like Camel and Rosseau if they were more complex and led by violin instead of electric guitar.

Here's a few Youtube clips:

This just blew me away. In a year that's already had a number of amazing instrumental albums, this is yet another one, and possibly the best yet.

That's some pretty cool stuff. PTF are Japanese? Weird, I can't remember seeing them under Japan. Which update were they in? I recently scanned the previous five updates from Greg and I don't remember them at all.

I just noticed Motoi plays everything on his new CD, including drumkit. I'll get to spinning this thing tonight.

Red Sand-Cinema Du Vieux Cartier(2013)-The end

ArtRock Heaven

KLAINE TRIO - ISTIKLAL (DIGIPACK) $20 Media Banda instrumental offshoot that blends prog & fusion with ambient space. Only 3 copies for sale! Not sure if I can get more in the future https://soundcloud.com/search?q=klaine%20trio

Electric Swan Swirl In Gravity

TheBluesrocker007

INGRANAGGI DELLA VALLE - IN HOC SIGNO $16 Debut album by this Roman group with keys and violin at the forefront. Simply put, this is one of the best Italian prog albums to come along in a while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XayqTfWgqiA

STELLA LEE JONES - A FLOATING PLACE (JAPANESE PRESSING) $25 Killer instrumental symphonic fusion with violin and accordian. Imagine a cross between Kenso and Asturias and you get the picture https://soundcloud.com/stellaleejones

White Willow - Snowfall REMASTERED

JCLUPO

Hitting the stores on July 5. Remastered and expanded, White Willow's seminal debut album from 1995, "Ignis Fatuus" is finally available again. This time as a double album with a bonus CD. Available from all good vendors and from www.termorecords.com

arkvespero

PREMIERE! VESPERO presents an official video of "DROGA" from the upcoming "Droga" CD-album. The release hits the streets this summer. Stay tuned and enjoy the Southern Russia's landscapes! http://www.raig.ru/vespero.asp http://www.facebook.com/Vesperomusic http://vespero.bandcamp.com/

Brainticket - Places Of Light [Cottonwoodhill] 1970

Giovannino SenzaPaura

Brainticket - Places Of Light [Cottonwoodhill] 1970 Cottonwoodhill is one of the trippiest records ever made, capturing the intensity of the peak LSD experience far more successfully than any Timothy Leary recording, and even today, when many such documents from that era can sound silly and dated, Brainticket's fascinating debut still holds hallucinogenic potency. The record has only two proper songs, "Black Sand" and "Places of Light," with a side and a half of the album taken up by the three-part "Brainticket." "Black Sand" opens the disc with a driving funk beat and powerful organ and guitar interplay, adding in vocals distorted beyond coherency. "Places of Light" begins in a slightly lighter vein as a flute leads the proceedings, a looser jazzier piece that throws in some of Dawn Muir's odd spoken word vocals. Before one realizes what has happened, the piece has faded out and there is suddenly a crashing sound, car horns, and engines starting up. "Brainticket" is a bizarre roller coaster ride through weird sound effects and electronics, an endless organ riff, and Muir's acid-rush ramblings from hushed whisper to urgent screams, as any coherency she had earlier becomes lost to mind-expanding visions. Rather than the laid-back mellow groove of some psychedelic music from this era, Cottonwoodhill has a hyper energy in the frenetic organ riff and Muir's voice, like an acid trip out of control, while at times the various sound effects take over completely. - Ron Bryer / guitar - Werner Fröhlich / bass - Helmuth Kolbe / keyboards - Cosimo Lampis / drums - Dawn Muir / vocals - Wolfgang Paap / percussion - Werni Prahlach / bass - Joel Vandroogenbroeck / keyboards, flute, vocals

Roger Eno / Plumbline - Pulling Strings (Official)

noot9000

Official video for the song 'Pulling Strings' from the new Roger Eno / Plumbline album 'Endless City / Concrete Garden'. Video by Anita Maria Leib and Robert Vater. Order at www.hydrogendukebox.com neutralmusic.com rogereno.com hydrogendukebox.com copyright 2013

MÀELSTROM - SAME (A.K.A. ON THE GULF) (DIGIPACK) $16 Super-rare prog from 1973 that was originally released on CD back in 1997. Like all the 70’s US greats like Cathedral, Yezda Urfa, Ethos etc... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioMAon_2_2k(Preview)

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